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Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.
John Podhoretz
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John Podhoretz
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: April 18
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This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud he sits upon the throne.
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The problem is that borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the future to borrow even more money doesn't sound kosher. Because it isn't.
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I look at 'The New York Review of Books.' It's what it has been for 35 or 40 years, which is a highly sophisticated vehicle for anti-American self-hatred.
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Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn't care. This is war - not against the Taliban, but war against the GOP. He has Republicans on the ropes, and that's a victory he savors and desires - unlike Afghanistan, where he seems only to want to turn tail.
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For the record, I am not an admitted homosexual, nor am I a homosexual, though I do know the lyrics to every show tune ever written, which might perhaps account for the confusion.
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Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.
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Many people crave security and stability rather than risk-taking, and that doesn't make them any less American. They are the workers rather than the job creators, and all societies need both.
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There's no light at the end of the tunnel in the Republican message, no promise of better things to come. There's only the present stagnation, followed by a slow decline.
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Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.
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For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon.
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Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent.
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You'd think experienced political professionals would know better than to place their trust in exit polls, notoriously inaccurate surveys that had John Kerry winning the 2004 election by five points when he actually lost by three.
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I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do.
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In 2013, there were 6,261 black homicide victims in the US — almost all killed by black civilians.
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Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going.
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Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.
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Is victory sweet because your side wins - or is it really because the other side loses?
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The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden.
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Every great political campaign rewrites the rules devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes.
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Imagine his delight after it 'leaked' that he will propose raising taxes on the wealthy by $320 billion over the next 10 years, including increases to the capital gains and inheritance taxes.
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